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Time for a big, long Monday-morning table. Given our attacking buildup data, turns out it’s easy to calculate the number of attacking moves (moves that lead to shots, remember) in which each European player has been involved. That in turn makes it easy to identify each team’s prime creator – the player involved in the most attacking moves per 90, whether it be passes, shots, dribbles, whatever. The cut-off is 450 minutes, here they are:

Team

Player

Attacks p90

Napoli

Lorenzo Insigne

11.72

Arsenal

Mesut Özil

10.84

Manchester City

Kevin De Bruyne

10.83

Real Madrid

Cristiano Ronaldo

10.80

Barcelona

Neymar

10.77

Juventus

Paulo Dybala

10.38

Paris Saint-Germain

Ángel Di María

9.82

Lyon

Mathieu Valbuena

9.50

Celta de Vigo

Nolito

9.47

FC Bayern München

Douglas Costa

9.41

Roma

Miralem Pjanic

9.21

Fiorentina

Josip Ilicic

8.99

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Hakan Calhanoglu

8.92

VfB Stuttgart

Daniel Didavi

8.62

Internazionale

Stevan Jovetic

8.53

West Ham United

Dimitri Payet

8.48

Milan

Giacomo Bonaventura

8.33

Borussia Dortmund

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

8.24

Tottenham Hotspur

Christian Eriksen

8.20

Liverpool

Philippe Coutinho

8.16

Marseille

Abdel Barrada

8.15

Sevilla

Michael Krohn-Dehli

8.07

Chelsea

Cesc Fàbregas

7.98

Empoli

Riccardo Saponara

7.65

FC Schalke 04

Julian Draxler

7.57

Swansea City

Jonjo Shelvey

7.49

Chievo

Valter Birsa

7.48

Palermo

Franco Vázquez

7.43

Norwich City

Nathan Redmond

7.35

FC Augsburg

Caiuby

7.29

Bordeaux

Wahbi Khazri

7.26

Atalanta

Maximiliano Moralez

7.17

Rayo Vallecano

Jozabed

7.16

Southampton

Dusan Tadic

7.07

Everton

Ross Barkley

7.05

Deportivo de La Coruña

Luis Alberto

7.03

Caen

Andy Delort

6.92

SV Werder Bremen

Zlatko Junuzovic

6.88

Sassuolo

Domenico Berardi

6.88

FC Ingolstadt 04

Pascal Groß

6.85

Monaco

Stephan El Shaarawy

6.82

Genoa

Diego Perotti

6.81

Manchester United

Memphis Depay

6.78

Udinese

Francesco Lodi

6.75

Málaga

Duda

6.69

Eibar

Saúl Berjón

6.66

Guingamp

Yannis Salibur

6.62

Athletic Club

Raúl García

6.58

Lazio

Keita

6.56

Atlético de Madrid

Antoine Griezmann

6.53

Watford

Almen Abdi

6.53

Leicester City

Riyad Mahrez

6.49

Nice

Jean Seri

6.49

Frosinone

Robert Gucher

6.44

Espanyol

Marco Asensio

6.39

VfL Wolfsburg

André Schürrle

6.31

Valencia CF

Daniel Parejo

6.29

Newcastle United

Ayoze Pérez

6.27

Las Palmas

Jonathan Viera

6.17

Real Sociedad

Rubén Pardo

6.16

Lorient

Yann Jouffre

6.10

Angers

Thomas Mangani

6.06

Crystal Palace

Bakary Sako

6.05

Borussia Mönchengladbach

Ibrahima Traoré

6.05

Sunderland

Adam Johnson

6.03

Montpellier

Ryad Boudebouz

5.98

Getafe

Pedro León

5.97

Levante

Morales

5.86

Rennes

Kamil Grosicki

5.82

Nantes

Jules Iloki

5.81

St Etienne

Nolan Roux

5.76

Lille

Sofiane Boufal

5.75

Troyes

Corentin Jean

5.72

Toulouse

Óscar Trejo

5.67

Hannover 96

Hiroshi Kiyotake

5.65

Sampdoria

Éder

5.58

Bournemouth

Matt Ritchie

5.52

Bologna

Franco Brienza

5.40

GFC Ajaccio

Damjan Djokovic

5.35

Verona

Federico Viviani

5.27

Carpi

Matteo Fedele

5.25

Eintracht Frankfurt

Marc Stendera

5.24

Stoke City

Marko Arnautovic

5.18

Hamburger SV

Lewis Holtby

5.08

Granada CF

Rubén Rochina

5.04

West Bromwich Albion

James Morrison

5.02

Hertha BSC

Vladimir Darida

5.02

Real Betis

Joaquín

4.97

SV Darmstadt 98

Konstantin Rausch

4.95

1. FSV Mainz 05

Yoshinori Muto

4.90

Bastia

Sadio Diallo

4.86

Aston Villa

Rudy Gestede

4.79

1. FC Köln

Anthony Modeste

4.74

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

Eduardo Vargas

4.71

Reims

Nicolas de Preville

4.71

Sporting de Gijón

Alen Halilovic

4.63

Torino

Daniele Baselli

4.60

Villarreal

Manu Trigueros

4.22

Özil only just beating out half a dozen or so other Arsenal players in that free-wheeling attack, de Bruyne sneaking up on a limited number of minutes, and someone explain Villareal to me. Turns out they’re 5th, but they don’t appear to attack much?

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2 thoughts on “Prime Creators”

Have you considered giving this data as a percentage of team total? Seems it would hopefully separate out team strength to some extent, although might be biased towards players on teams with fewer attacking weapons.